The conference organisers welcome submissions of either theoretical or empirical nature. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Forecasting exchange rates developments and forex market innovations; - The impact of quantitative easing on exchange rate developments; - Exchange rate...

Empirical Methods in Money Macro - Maik Wolters (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) This course deals with the analysis of dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium models. The focus of this course is on methodological aspects related to the analysis of business cycle models. In particular we...

Topics: - recent developments and longer-term trends in labour supply and human capital in Europe; - determinants of human capital investment; - the design and effects of policy measures aimed at fostering labour supply and human capital investment; - the importance of human capital investment...

Topics relating to money markets: - The functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment - The impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation; empirical studies on segmentation in the euro...

The series of biennial conferences on statistics held by the ECB provides an important forum for the exchange of views on requirements, opportunities and challenges for statistics for central bank policy-making. The 2014 conference will bring together users and compilers of statistics from...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

We offer six tracks at our conferences: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Energy Policy, Engineering Education, and Health Sciences. The Business & Economics track provides a forum for faculty to present their research on any accounting, CIS/CMS, economics, finance, management,...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

Monetary Theory and Policy - Simon Gilchrist (Boston University and NBER) This course examines theoretical foundations of New Keynesian Models and their implications for the conduct of monetary policy. The course emphasizes empirically relevant models that are suitable for policy analysis. The...